YOU ARE A SAINT. BLESseD ARE YOU! Prayer: Lord, help us to believe that in You, for Jesus’ sake, we are blesséd. And strengthen our faith so that we believe that although here we are sinners, because our sins are taken away, we are saints, citizens of heaven. Amen. Dear saints: Blessed are you…
Luther’s reformation was about restoring the Gospel, seeing Christ for us, for our comfort. This conclusion to his letter to a depressed young man is one of the best ways to represent and remember Luther! When the devil throws our sins up to us and declares that we deserve death and hell, we should say:…
JESUS IS THE ANSWER TO THE LAW Prayer: Dear Lord, we know that Your Law is good; but since the Fall its holiness condemns us all, it dooms us for our sin to die, and has no power to justify. By Your Holy Spirit, help us to so use the Law that to Jesus we…
BEING AT REST IN THE PRESENCE OF JESUS WHO HEALS: THAT’S WHAT THE SABBATH IS ABOUT Prayer: Lord Jesus, at our dinner tables we ask You to be our Guest. But there’s a greater table: Your holy Supper, Your body with the bread and with the wine the blood You shed. You say this food…
JESUS DESTROYS DEATH’S POWER OVER US Prayer: Lord, teach us that because of You, we now can have no fear of death and that our sadness over death is not like those who have no hope. But let it not only be that You teach us, but through Your Word and Sacraments powerfully give and…
JESUS SAYS HIS LITTLE ONES HAVE ANGELS Prayer: We thank You, our heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, Your dear Son, that You have graciously kept us from all harm and danger. Into Your hands we commend ourselves, our loved ones and all your little ones, our bodies and souls and all things; let Your holy…
MATTHEW’S GOSPEL Prayer: Dear Lord God: We thank You today that You not only changed the life of Matthew, from being a tax collector and an outcast sinner to being Your disciple and apostle, but also You used him to write the first gospel. We thank You for the Gospel, by which we learn to…
JESUS WANTS HIS CHURCH TO BE THE HOME OF MERCY Prayer: Lord, let mercy make me ever willing to bear my lot and not to fret. While You my restless heart are stilling, may I Your mercy not forget! Whatever comes my heart to test, Your mercy is my only rest. Lord, help me stand…
Christian Obituary for Richard Getz Richard Edward Getz was born on October 3, 1931, to Edward Adolf and Edna Getz in Teaneck, New Jersey. The Triune God who gave him life also gave him the new birth and saving faith; he was baptized in the name of the Triune God as a child. Having suffered…
The livestream for today’s service has no sound; here is Pastor Gullixson’s sermon on Mark 7:31-37. In Jesus’ name. Amen. People loved by God, In our text for meditation today, we hear of Jesus healing a deaf-mute. In this account, we see the love of our Savior whose mercy got the best of Him, as…